Sentence examples for were misattributed from inspiring English sources
verb
To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
Over the years many of Lievens's paintings were misattributed to Rembrandt.
Charts with the article, explaining the components of a typical electric bill, were misattributed.
Until a generation ago Vivaldi pieces in Bach's hand were misattributed by musicologists.
Conservators there discovered that a quarter of his 926 works were not of museum quality, were misattributed or, in a few cases, were fakes.
"The funds raised were misattributed to Senator Casey — Mark Alderman raised the funds from those donors, and therefore we are updating our Web site to reflect that Mark Alderman is the volunteer fund-raiser who raised those contributions.
A new gallery of Spanish art at the Louvre – featuring nine El Grecos, plus a few that were misattributed – enraptured painters like Eugène Delacroix, who owned a copy of one of El Greco's scenes from the Passion.
Countless anonymous antiques have been misattributed to him.
A painting pictured with the article was misattributed.
Sometimes his work was misattributed to more famous artists and somehow he got lost.
Correction: In a previous version of this post, this quotation was misattributed to Elizabeth Hardwick.
The survival of the quotation helps insure the survival of the person to whom it is misattributed.
